Usually means: Unnecessary, ornamental elements in fashion.
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  1. fripperies: Merriam-Webster
  2. fripperies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fripperies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fripperies: Vocabulary.com
  5. fripperies: Wordnik
  6. fripperies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. fripperies: Wiktionary
  8. fripperies: Dictionary.com
  9. fripperies: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See frippery as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (frippery)

noun:  Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
noun:  Useless things; trifles.
noun:  (obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
noun:  (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
noun:  (obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
noun:  Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
▸ Also see frippery


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